Steven Damron

Was tweeting about Covid-19 to create an historical record. Now working on writing with ChatGPT and other AI/ML technology.

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

Google AI used the text of Dear Mustafa to generate a podcast. Check it out on my homepage: https://t.co/TANhg3d8nN

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

It's bittertweet leaving xitter, but here's help if you want to move your content.

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

https://t.co/fndZTN1nxQ

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Brutal bookstore

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@levelsio It's a little early to write Google's obituary. Xerox was sitting on the windows-based PC and failed to exploit it. OTOH, 1/4 of Google's software now AI generated, plus TPUs, Gemini, etc.

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@G_azzi horrible

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

To get a feeling of the future of AI, you should pay attention to the labs but also to the performance artists.

This sounds cryptic but I mean it literally.

[Jennifer Senior @JenSeniorNY]

What I would add to this already eye-opening story:

Many high school kids have never seen a *textbook.* The very idea that concepts can be laid out in a linear argument or presented cumulatively—whether it’s history or math—is foreign to them. https://t.co/Yp9iVrIWT7

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

Amazing that I can drop the text of Dear Mustafa into NotebookLM, press a button, and out pops a great review podcast of the book!
https://t.co/MMJI0FPWTg

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

Hard to believe. Chapter 6 of Italo Calvino's 1980 book "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" anticipated the computer written books that AI might deliver soon.

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@tunguz @CEObyDayMCat Other way around. With a finite resource, at least in the short run, you want to squeeze as much value as possible from each unit of energy. I can't think of an industry that's improved with a decrease in energy efficiency.

[David Perell @david_perell]

The Sam Altman Interview

You know him as the CEO of OpenAI — but he's also an avid writer.

We spoke not once but twice about how Sam captures ideas, clarifies his thinking, edits his writing, decides what to work on, and uses ChatGPT.

Timestamps:

1:47 Will LLMs change how we write?
8:39 How does Sam use ChatGPT?
11:26 How Sam became less anxious
17:24 Sam once dreamed of being a novelist
18:37 Lessons from Peter Thiel
21:35 Lessons from Paul Graham
26:02 The book Sam Altman wants to write
28:37 Advice for startup founders
30:20 How Y Combinator shapes OpenAI
35:55 How Sam chose to work on AGI
37:35 Writing strategy memos at OpenAI
41:34 Why isn’t ChatGPT a better storyteller?
44:20 Sam's obsessive note-taking method
47:12 Will AI put writers out of work?

[Andi @andi_search]

Andi ranks #1 on a new SOTA AI search benchmark. Here's how we did it with just $3M in funding 🚀

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@newquilters Yes. I uploaded the text of the book and pushed a button. Out came the podcast.

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

Google AI used the text of Dear Mustafa to generate a podcast. Check it out on my homepage: https://t.co/TANhg3d8nN

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@mtaibbi Craigslist gave up personals bc of sex worker ads. Feds shut down Silk Road for drugs. What are the correct boundaries? No holds barred for total free speech?

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

Hmm. I'm writing a book this way.

[Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife]

There's a new trend in China where people make videos pretending to be AI.

I'm so very tempted. I'm asked if I'm an AI bot every day 😅

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@WallStreetSilv The endpoint of this assertion is that when we achieve AGI, we should close all schools because they won't generate economic value. Why is production of economic value the only reason for doing anything? Like, why bother having kids?

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@levelsio @matthewbennett I think of tourists as short-term immigrants and treat them accordingly.

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

Have to wonder how much longer audiobooks will last.

[Lorenzo Thione @thione]

2- MARS5 TTS, an open-source text-to-speech system by Camb AI, offers voice cloning with <5s audio, high prosodic control, and a two-stage model (AR 750M + NAR 450M). Probably the most advanced TTS open source model to date!

https://t.co/TluWDvvVJM

[Steven Damron @stevendamron]

@EdWhelanEPPC Someone has to make policy decisions. The question is whether it's bureaucrats with domain knowledge or judges with knowledge about legal process. To me, this decision seems anti-expert , which is what a fascist state requires to make a dictator all powerful.